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EMobile's Japanese Ad Equates Obama with a Monkey to Sell Phones
In this Japanese EMobile ad, a monkey politician stands before a crowd chanting and holding up signs calling for change. Yes, that's right, a fucking monkey standing in for Obama is selling phones in Japan. I guess it's to be expected coming from a country that thinks blackface is hilarious, but seriously — this is pretty ridiculous. [Animal NY via Boing Boing Gadgets]
5:39 PM on Tue Jun 24 2008
By Adam Frucci
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survival kit
to beat down terrorists bust out windows. And it comes in a rainbow of colors (fashion is life or death too, after all): pink, yellow, green and orange. It's only $28, a good deal for the gear, an even better one for your life.
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Subivor Survival Kit: Buy It or You Will Die in a Subway Terrorist Attack, Maybe
If you can't hawk your wares with a standard appeal to people's vanity, there's always good old-fashioned fearmongering. Like you'll DIE in a fire caused by TERRORISTS. Unless you've got the Subivor survival kit! Ominous music and death-hype aside, it's actually not a bad little pack of emergency gear—a mask that protects against toxic smoke, anthrax and other small things that'll kill you; flashlight; whistle; moist towelettes; and a mini-crowbar,
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Gawker's Sci-Fi Blog io9 Launches Today Like Hulk Out of a Phone Booth
Oh, Annalee Annalee, let us count the ways we love you! First, because you are the editor of io9, our new sister blog on science fiction, double feature, oh oh oh. Second, because you bought good old Ferrigno's Hulk on DVD. Third, because you did a post about a scene in which Banner turns into Hulk after getting excited by a phone company operator in a bad, not-green way (I have wanted that so many times myself.) Fourth, because you mentioned "lady trucker friend" and "Lily Tomlin" in the same phrase... I could go on and on, but I won't waste any more time: Gizmodians, head to io9 for a wonderful world of science fiction, where everyone goes around in tinfoil underpants or no underpants at all. [io9]
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- Account Manager - Cisco Commercial Accounts - SoCal - Global CTI Group, Irvine, CA (LA, OC, SD, IE)
- Senior Development Engineer - Permabit, Cambridge, MA
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How Your iPhone News Gets 'Fair and Balanced'
Ever wonder why everything on cable news is so black-and-white? So extreme? Why there's never a rational guy who can see the logic in both sides? It's not how people really are, but it's what gets the ratings. And they're the only type of people FoxNews will book. Witness the evidence! More »
3:53 PM on Tue Jun 26 2007
By Adam Frucci
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K-Fed Launches His Own Search Engine; Internet Loses Yet More Dignity
If Google isn't sleazy enough for you, perhaps you'd like to try Searching with Kevin. Federline, that is. Yes, the guy who somehow escaped his marriage with Britney Spears looking like the sane one now has his own branded search engine that offers you chances to win prizes (going to Kevin's birthday party, OMG!) every time you search. There's even a Search with Kevin toolbar you can install, always keeping Kevin's famous research skills at your fingertips. Surprisingly, you can search for things other than porn, bling, and rhyming dictionaries, which seems to go against the whole spirit of the affair. More »
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Gawker Video Prank, Plus Challenge
Most of you have heard of the Mosquito Ringtone, or Teen Buzz, by now. Originally developed as a security device to keep those pesky kids away from your shops, this high frequency pitch was quickly hijacked by terrorist youth who used the weapon for their own text-messaging-during-class gain. More »
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Conde Nast Backs Up Fake Steve Jobs in Fight with Real Steve Jobs
When Fake Steve Jobs, the anonymous blogger who parodied the real man, was asked to cease and desist, he asked for a sugar daddy to keep the site going. After only a few weeks, Wired News emerged as the lucky sponsor. I wonder how much he sold his soul for — fighting those lawyers can't be cheap. The real question is how long til Fake Steve Jobs is running all of Conde Nast, Wired's parent company? He may be fake, but even fake Boom carries awesome power. Conde Nast meets geek parody god? This could be a better crossover than Aliens vs. Predator. (By typing this comparison, I feel the force of 10,000 virtual wedgies flying through my cable modem.)More »
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Vice Launches Online Video Channel
Everybody's favorite hipster magazine, Vice, has launched an online TV network that aims to take the young, fashionable, and urban demographic away from the living room and on to the internet. Well, even more onto the internet. More »
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Calling All New York Filmmakers
They say New York is full of aspiring filmmakers, fresh from film school or, you know, the streets, eager to get their creations in front of the eyes of the world. We sure hope so, because we're looking for a few good video producers with which to work to create short clips suitable for web viewing. (Because your ideas kind of suck. (Sorry!)) More »
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